Movie Rant: Men Who Hate Women (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
WARNING!
The rant – sorry review – below contains SPOILERS! Obviously. So if you have not read the book or seen the movie adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first Millennium book, Män som hatar kvinnor (‘Men Who Hate Women’ a.ka. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) … read on at your own risk! 
Extra note: There’s also a bit of spoiling below for the second book, since scenes from that were included in the first movie! (Don’t blame me, blame the director.)
Finally, if you are looking for a rant about The Girl Who Played With Fire click here.
Okay, stand down from red alert – and go to the review …! 
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I saw Mænd der hader kvinder as it is known here in Denmark in late February. By now (September 2009) it should have been released in most of the major European countries (and even in Canada) – but not the UK or US! Not yet at least. So you have to have patience if you’re a Stieg Larsson fan from one of these countries.
But let me begin by saying that the movie adaptation of Män som hatar kvinnor is
… quite good, actually. 
As always with such films I especially enjoyed the widescreen shots of the big, misty, lonely, mysterious Swedish forests … but of course I also enjoyed immensely the superb acting by Noomi Rapace (who plays Lisbeth Salander)!
The movie’s vision of both Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander – and actually quite a few of the other characters (especially the creepy lawyer, Bjurman) and settings (especially Hedestad) – almost all of those corresponded quite well with the picture which had slowly but surely formed in my mind’s eye from just reading Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. And be it forests or great actors – it’s always a pleasure to see on a large – very large – canvas and with THX sound in one of Denmark’s largest cinemas. (Cinemaxx, if anyone should wonder. We also have Imperial which is billed as having the largest screen in Scandinavia, although I am not so sure … )
So – all in all – brilliant entertainment, good acting, moody and intense photography. What more one possibly want?
Well, since you asked …
